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linux solution for backing up a window network?

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ZippyDan

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is there a linux distro or other linux solution that can backup a windows network reliably? im looking to backup a small windows network of 3 winXP computers. not sure yet if im going to be using tape backups, raid, and/or external hds, but i need something that can do daily backups and do it well every time
 
You can use ntbackup on the 3 winXP computers to schedule nightly backups to a file share located on a linux box (using SAMBA) and then use AMANDA to spin the backup files to tape. I believe AMANDA is the name of the tape backup subsystem in linux, and there are various frontends for it. Alternatively, you could create a file share on the XP machines that would contain all files you want to backup, then mount those three file shares on a linux box and use AMANDA to spin the files from the shares directly to tape.
 
If you want to use an external harddive, you could mount the 3 file shares on the linux box and then set up a cron job to just copy the files to the mount location of the external harddrive using the cp command, or, more efficient than the cp command, you could you rsync to copy the files in the same manner.
 
hard drives on another machine doesn't really count as a backup, unless you happen to have 3 computers, and store one offsite 😉
 
I think what they were getting at was running a backup of the 3 PCs to the Linux HD, then backing up the linux HD to tape, ext drive, etc. Not just backing up to the HD and leaving it there.

 
Me.. i *always* use a LIVE-CD to do PARTIMAGE ( to save my linux harddisk image + mbr) and save it to another partition then transferring it to DVD.
PARTIMAGE *might* also be able to backup winXP (NTFS) provided you've run diskdefrag first. But I have yet to TRY backing up my winXP harddisk image using LIVE-CD with PARTIMAGE, then TRY restoring it back with a blank harddrive. I really do wanna try this but I always either forget or is being lazy.

If successful, this will put norton ghost to shame !!

question.. has anyone tried PARTIMAGE for NTFS (aka winXP) ??
 
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